On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Vincent Fourmond <fourm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com> wrote: >> Vincent Fourmond wrote: >> >>> This raises a problem which I've hit quite a few times already: it is >>> a currently pain to find which java package holds which java classes. >>> It would be quite great to have the equivalent of apt-file for java >>> classes ;-)... (and that shouldn't be too difficult to write, actually >>> - I just do not currently have the time). >> >> This should do it. > > Sure, but that only works for installed packages, whereas its > utility would be much greater if it was based on some index of the > jars available in the Debian archive... (for the record, apt-file is a > utility that tells you which packages are installing a named file).
Thierry Carrez wrote a utility like that sometime back. More details at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JavaTeam/JavaContents Onkar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org